I had an old ugly brown square electric pencil sharpener that I had for 20 years and was excellent, but it eventually gave out and died. Since then I have tried several electric pencil sharpeners and several battery operated sharpeners. They all worked fine for a very limited amount of time, then the leads started breaking off in the units and for some pencils you could never get a point at all. Other times the pencil sharpened at a weird angle so it was pointed but 1 side was lead and the other was still wood.In a complete and total act of desperation I bought this pencil. Which works beautifully so far (longer than any of the others) and costs less.

This is a great pencil sharpener. The sharpener arrived just one business day after I ordered it. It sharpens pencils and colored pencils perfectly - with ease. My kids are able to use it. It also has a mechanism on it to ensure you can't over sharpen. However, the clamp that holds the pencil sharpener to the table comes loose while it is being used. We do not have the luxury of putting the sharpener on the wall and need to use the clamp. So we just have to retighten it during the use of it to ensure it doesn't come loose. Otherwise, it's a great sharpener!